[Ham-Computers] RE: XP install question

[jeff]

Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal) wrote:
> However, for reasons I think I've posted here in the past, I highly discourage "upgrades" from one OS to another.  

I'd like to second gentleman Aaron's advice.
After hundreds of XP installs alone, I can do it with my eyes closed. 
You don't need to do hundreds of them - all you need to do is one: 
yours.  It's not terribly difficult and you'll get a `clean' system. 
Make sure you have any drivers you're going to need, if they're not part 
of your install package.  It never hurts to have another computer 
connected to the net in case you need anything in the meantime.

Lastly, be sure to download all of the Windows updates that are 
available (with the exception of WGA and IE7) as well as your favorite 
antivirus app.


For those of you with fairly recent computers, you can do all sorts of 
interesting things with virtualization.  I've mentioned VMplayer in the 
past and I just got done installing KVM to a few machines.  KVM works at 
the hardware level so it's much faster than a regular virtual machine. 
Not sure if it's available for Windows (I use linux).

The beauty of virtual machines/KVM is that you can test all sorts of 
software and operating systems without disturbing your main system. 
Even if you trash the test software, you just reload the machine and 
you're back at square one, ready to play some more.



Enjoy!


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